Crucial Conversation: The marriage discrimination amendment

“What would the marriage discrimination amendment really mean for North Carolina?”

Next May, North Carolina voters are scheduled to go to the polls to vote on one of the most important and controversial constitutional amendments to ever be placed on a state ballot. The proposed marriage amendment states that “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.”

Recent polls indicate, however, that despite significant support for the amendment, most North Carolinians feel that same sex couples should be eligible for legal recognition.

So, what would the effect of such an amendment be? Why the disconnect between voter attitudes and the apparent substance of proposal? And what are anti-amendment advocates going to do about it?

To learn the answers to these questions and more, please join NC Policy Watch and Equality NC[1] for a very special Crucial Conversation luncheon.

Featuring:Evan Wolfson[2](pictured above), founder and President of the national nonprofit, Freedom to Marry[3] — the campaign to win marriage nationwide. He is also the author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry.

Wolfson will be joined by two of North Carolina’s foremost constitutional scholars and experts on the proposed amendment, UNC Professors of Law, Maxine Eichner[4] and Holning Lau[5]as well as the Executive Director of Equality NC, Stuart Campbell[6].

[8] Click here to register for this event: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/?page_id=25614&regevent_action=register&event_id=14&name_of_event=Crucial Conversation - What would the marriage amendment really mean for North Carolina?